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Newsmakers, Sept. 30: PSSA results

Updated:
09/28/2012 01:18:22 PM EDT

There was some unfortunate - but not unexpected - news on the education front last week. Half of York County's school districts and all but two of the county's high schools failed to make adequate yearly progress on the state PSSA tests.

Apparently, we're reaching the point that educators have long predicted: The escalating goals aiming toward 100 percent proficiency of students in reading and math by 2014 are now much more difficult to attain. Many educators say the goals are impossible.

Maybe. And No Child Left Behind will likely have to be modified.

But teachers should never stop striving to turn out students who are all at least proficient in reading and math.